What is the purpose of an argument's introduction? a. to anger the audience and make them feel upset at the author b. to present evidence that will support the argument c. to ask questions that the audience will have to answer d. to establish the main points of the argument

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?